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Structural variation in the human genome.
Nature reviews. Genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Feuk Lars, Carson Andrew R, Scherer Stephen W
Abstract excerpt
The first wave of information from the analysis of the human genome revealed SNPs to be the main source of genetic and phenotypic human variation. However, the advent of genome-scanning technologies has now uncovered an unexpectedly large extent of what we term 'structural variation' in the human genome. This comprises microscopic and, more commonly, submicroscopic variants, which include deletions, duplications...
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